DNI Haines cites intensifying cyber threats at Senate Armed Services hearing

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines stressed the need to improve cybersecurity practices in critical infrastructure amid one of the “most pernicious transnational threats” facing the United States, at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the intelligence community’s 2024 global threat assessment.

“We have seen a massive increase in the number of ransomware attacks globally in the last year, which went up as much as 74 percent in 2023. U.S. entities were the most heavily targeted, with attacks against...